"remember one of my teammates was just hacking him apart, digging something out," one girl told me, "and I realized I was patting his arm, going, 'It's okay, it's okay.'" I asked a student named Matthew whether he would miss his cadaver when the course ended, and he replied that it was actually sad when "just part of him left." (Halfway through the course, the legs are removed and incinerated to reduce the students' exposure to the chemical preservatives.)"